Modern humans (Homo sapiens ... sapiens survive when all of our relatives went extinct? To understand how we endured as a ...

Now we can look back at all the species that might have existed at the time and examine which one may have been most like the first human." P.PLAILLY/E.DAYNES/SPL The remains of an ape named Lucy ...

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 59, Issue. 1, p. 160. In The Unstoppable Human Species John Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained ... Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and ...

and ready-reference tables--all the reader needs in a single volume to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of how humankind has developed and how scientists set about investigating the origin of our ...

Her combination of apelike and humanlike traits suggested her species occupied a key place in the family tree: ancestral to all later human species, including members of our genus, Homo.

Based on this definition, it’s easy to see why some consider humans an invasive species. After all, we’ve caused plenty of ...

"When we analyzed the environmental factors that controlled where human species lived ... Whether this is all a coincidence, or whether the intensifying glacial climate shifts contributed to ...

"When we analyzed the environmental factors that controlled where human species lived ... "Whether this is all a coincidence, or whether the intensifying glacial climate shifts contributed ...